I Prefer Bill The Red

But this blogger sees purple. Hey, you say to-may-to…

Hillary Clinton is unworthy of the title first woman President because so many others are waiting in the wings who rightfully deserve it. Janet Napolitano for one. A husbandless woman who scraped and crawled her way to the Governor's Mansion of Arizona after being Attorney General. No famous last name for her to rely on. No glass ceilings broken by the hammer of a husband.

Or Christine Gregoire. Another woman who had to fight against actual glass ceilings to win as Governor of Washington. Or Linda Lingle, Governor of Hawaii. Or Kathleen Selebius, Governor of Kansas. Or Senators Blanche Lincoln or Patty Murray, sneaker walking-soccer moms who hit the pavements and put in their blood, toil, and tears to scrape to the top and win fame and power in their own right.

And in who's right will Hillary become President? Not her own. This is her husband's purple faced, in-your-face victory. Simply put, if she can't win on her own, if she can't campaign on her own, then surely she cannot govern on her own.

The pertinent point obviously isn't Bill's angry-faced hue, but whether we want a Clinton restoration. And whether Hillary is really the capable politician she sells herself as being—on her own, sans powerful husband. Speaking personally, I don't see how her getting elected this way is anything but a setback for smart, strong woman…and the country.